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  1. Sooperhoop

    Sooperhoop Well-Known Member

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    2008, a bloody awful support act...
     
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  3. Sooperhoop

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    At the Oval in 72 or 73. Me and a couple of mates built a podium out of three large upside down litter bins and used them to get over the outside wall for an all day freebie...
     
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    Toots....?
     
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    Blind Faith?
     
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    Saw them in a club in Brixton where I grew up around 71...
     
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    Saw them from a distance in a jam packed Hyde Park in 69...
     
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    Moody blues
     
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  9. Sooperhoop

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    At the good old Rainbow Finsbury Park 73...
     
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    Genesis?
     
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    Tin Lizzy
     
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    Trivium...?
     
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    Several times and they were on the same bill as Focus at the Oval although the headline band were ELP...
     
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    Saw them before they were famous at the South Bank Polytechnic 73...
     
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    Another support act 2008...
     
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    Iron maiden
     
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    Twickenham 2008, supported by Trivium and Avenged Sevenfold...
     
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    Think that only leaves Geno....?

    If so, Grove can get a go after handing over to Wherever last week.....
     
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    Bullseye!

    Despite living less than half a mile from the RamJam Club in Brixton I never got to see him. The club hosted a who's who of legends in the 60s including Hendrix, The Cream, Otis Redding and many more but that was just before I was old enough to go to concerts. On the one occasion I did go in there in the early 70s he was away on tour but by then it was much more soul-orientated.

    It eventually became the Fridge and saw many bands such as the Pet Shop Boys play regularly in the 80s. Ironically it is now a Happy Clappy Church...
     
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  20. GroveRanger

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    Is it me again?

    Sorry I didn't win fair and square but if you want to resume where I left off have another go at these;

    Aswad
    Saxon
    Sigue Sigue Sputnik*
    Gaye Bikers on Acid
    Bon Jovi
    Ramones
    Presidents of the USA
    The Cramps
    Alien Sex Fiend
    Wool

    * already guessed by Wherever - saw them at Abbey Road studios and loads after that. We used to go to their shop in Kensington Market where there was a life sized poster of Yana YaYa in the nuddy. She must be knocking on a bit now but was saucy at the time!
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